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B. G. BOWLING.

STAY FOR GARMBNTS.

No. 372,593. Patented Nov. 1, .1887.

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ENOCH O. BO\VLING, OF YPSILANT, MICHIGAN. ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO HENRY P. GLOVER, OF SAME PLACE.

STAY FOR GARMENTS.

SPECIFICATION iorming part of Letters Patent No. 372,593, dated November 1,1887.

Application filed June 6, 1887. Serial No. 240.387.

T aZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ENOCH C. BOWLING, a citizen of the United States, residing at Ypsilanti, in the county ofXVashtenaw and State of Michigan, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Dress-Stays; and I do declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it ap- IO pertains to make and use the same, reference being bad to the accompanying drawings, and to the letters and figures of reference marked thereon, which form a part of this specification.

Thisinvention relates to an improvement in dress-stays composed of a stiffener or flexible steel blade having agutta percha tissue, rubber, or like impervious flexible covering and an outer textilefabric covering forminga textile-fabric stitching-edge on two sides of the stay only.

The special feature of thisinvention consists in the construction of parts, as hereinafter set forth,and pointed out particularly in the claim,

and is designed as an improvement on Letters Patent issued to me on May 10, 1887, No. 362,568.

In my former patent the stay is provided with a stitching-edge along its sides and ends. In my present device Idispense with the stitching or textile-fabric projection at the ends of the stay and protect the ends of the blade or stiffener by folding one of the covering fabrics and gatta-percha-tissue sheets over the ends of the stiffening-blade and cement or confine the turned-over portions to the back covering textile fabric, to prevent the ends of the steel or stiffening blade from cutting through the garment of the wearer.

In the accompanying drawings, forming a part ofthis specification, Figure 1 shows a sheet of manufactured goods prior to the pinking or separation, in winch the dotted line Z shows the line of separation. Fig. 2 is a back view of same in cross Section, taken on the dotted line yg of Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is an isometrical view showing the complete stay. Fig. 4; is a View of same, showing the back face with one ofthe ends unsealed. 5 is a vertical longitudiea! section of Fig. 3 inverted, being taken on the dotted line w a: of Fig. 3.

(N0 model.)

The stay consists of a steel or flexible blade, 0, having on each of its flat faces a sheet of textile fabric, 0 O, or muslin with interposed or intermediate strips of gutta-percha tissue 5 The covering fabrics 0 G and sheets ofgutta percha tissue are cut or made wider than the blade O,aud project beyond the edges of the blade 0, so as to form the textile-fabric or no stitching edges e e, the stay being secured to the open seam of a garment by stitching through the edges 6 c.

In practice I use for the back covering, 0 common muslin, the length of which and the sheet of gutta-percha tissue (lying between it and the blade) are ofan equallength. The ends of the back fabric, 0, and gutta-percha tissue f terminate at the ends of the blade 0, as shown in Fig. 5 and at the right of Fig. 4.

I employ for the front covering, G, textile fabric of a better grade, which I form longer than the blade 0, so as to project beyond each end of the blade. (See Figs. 4 and 5.)

The strip of gutta-percha tissuef is of the same length as the front covering. The projecting ends (1 of the front covering, 0, and the like projecting ends of the gutta-perchatissue stripf, I fold over the ends of the blade 0 onto the back covering fabric, 0, as clearly shown in Fig. 5, in which the white linefindicates the gutta-percha tissue.

The parts are firmly sealed together after folding by passing over the fabric a heated iron-such asasad-iron-and when makingthe stay in sheet form, as shown in Figs. 1 and 2, the parts may be united by passing the sheet through heated corrugated rollers. The application of heat causes the gutta-percha tissue to melt or soften, thus passing into the interstices of the textile fabrics. When the parts are cooled,they form a united body. The guttapercha tissue prevents moist ure from reaching the steel blade 0 and firmly binds the edges of thelabricstogether, and, likerubber.allows the bending of the stay, as the coating is flexible.

The sheet, S, of stays shown in Figs. 1 and 2 is made as follows: I place on the upper face of the fabric G, as shown in Fig. 2. the sheet of gnttwpercha tissuef; then place the series of lot blades 0 on said gutta' iwrchatissue sheet at Some distance from each other, as shown in Fig. 2. forming the space 2. I then place over the blades 0 the sheet of gutta-percha tissue f, the length of said sheet being the same as that of the blades 0. I then place thereon the textile-fabric covering C,having the same length; then pass a heated iron over the face of the fabric 0, cementing the parts together. I then fold the projecting ends (1 d of the fabric 0 and gii'ttapercha tissue f over the ends of the blades 0 onto the covering C; then pass a heated iron over the folded ends 11, cementing them together, as shown in Fig. 2; then pass a picking-wheel along the dotted line Z. midway between the blades O,cutting through the fabrics, thus producing the stay shown in Fig. 3, in which a represents the pinked edges,and e the stitching-edges.

The object ofl'olding the ends (1 over the ends of the blade 0 is to properly cover the ends of the blade, so as to prevent them from punctur ing or cutting through the garment to which they are to be attached, and the object of the stitching-edge is to provide means for sewing them onto the garment, as before set forth.

. the textile-fabric coverings and the adjoining like projecting ends of the gutta-percha sheet f folded over theends of the blade 0 adhering to the covering fabric 0, as and for the purposes specified.

In testimony whereof I afifix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

ENOCH o. BOWLING.

Witnesses:

B. F. WHEELER, 0. W. RUssELL. 

